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Leon Trotsky Quotes about Art

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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Leon Trotsky
Art, Law, Revolutionary

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Leon Trotsky
Art, Bridges, Hands
Leon Trotsky (1925). “Literature and Revolution”, p.181, Haymarket Books

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Leon Trotsky
Art, Inspiration, Creative
Leon Trotsky (1970). “My life: an attempt at an autobiography”, Pathfinder Pr

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